houseless

Example Sentences

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America’s homeless population ranges between 500,000 and 600,000 depending on who’s counting, with roughly two-thirds of houseless people sleeping in shelters.

From Salon • Nov. 7, 2023

She finished by pitching her chronically houseless client’s story: “This would be an opportunity to really help someone,” Shaw said.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 4, 2022

My parents might be homeless, but they aren't houseless.

From BBC • Sep. 30, 2022

As officers wrestled him out of his tent and carried him bodily toward the police van, a man shouted: “Shame on you. Is that how you treat houseless people?”

From New York Times • May 4, 2022

All those miles and days had been across a houseless, speechless desolation: rock, ice, sky, and silence: nothing else, for eighty-one days, except each other.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin